NETAVIS Observer 4.6 User Manual (October 2015)
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Please make sure that the
Enable interval
checkbox is marked, because only then are the
settings enabled and recording is started.
Note
: If you want to record at different times on different days, you can create multiple recording
intervals. For each recording interval proceed as described here.
8.
In addition to defining the weekdays and times, you need to specify the
Recording format
. If
your camera also supports multiple formats you have several choices (for details on streaming
formats please refer to
1.4 Video streaming methods and compression
on page 7):
JPEG stream
is also known as MJPEG, where the server stores sequences of JPEG
images.
MPEG-4 video
for MPEG-4 video streams.
H.264 video
for H.264 video streams.
MxPEG video
for MxPEG video streams.
For the MPEG video formats you can additionally select
Save audio
.
When you choose any of the MPEG video formats then the video settings that are defined in the
camera’s Default settings will be taken for recording (
4.2 Adding a new camera and setting basic
properties
on page 31).
If you choose
JPEG stream
you can additionally set the
Image quality
, the
Frame rate
and
the
Image size
for the archive recording:
Set the values according to your needs. See
1.4.5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements
on
page 10 for details on images sizes, quality, and storage requirements.
Note
: Some cameras are only capable of a single picture stream which will constrain the
possibility of recording in multiple formats and having different video stream settings in the
Online Monitor and the recording. Please refer to the document
NETAVIS Observer Supported
Video Sources
for information about supported cameras and their streaming capabilities.
9.
Fill in the
Requested recording period
for this camera. This value defines how long Observer
will keep recordings. Recordings that are older than
Requested recording period
will be
automatically deleted by Observer (see also
7.1.4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage
management
on page 74).
You can also select
Priority over other cameras (if storage space is short)
to give this
camera priority over other cameras if the available storage space is too small for all requested
recordings of all cameras (for further details see
7.1.4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage
management
on page 74).
You can also define what the requested recording period refers to: either
Recording period is
measured from now
or
Recording period is measured from youngest recording
. There
can be quite a difference between these two choices for the following case: Assume a motion
detection-based recording that only triggers recording once every few weeks.
Additionally, you can see the
Actual recording period (days/hours)
, the
Storage used by
this camera (MB)
, the
Total storage space (MB)
which shows the overall storage space of the
server, and the
Free storage space (MB)
which is the available space for new recordings on this
server.